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A beaver with rounded features sits among twigs and dried grasses beside water.
Animals

This Canadian national park is home to the world's largest beaver dam: 'The size of 1600 hockey rinks'

Beaver dams provide habitats for the mammals while slowing floodwaters and filtering pollutants from water.
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A man in a green jacket and tan vest stands beside an open vehicle, reaching toward a young gray elephant with its trunk extended out the window.
Animals

After an elephant was killed, Kenyan rangers searched for its baby for three weeks straight: 'He will never be alone again'

Pardamat was forced to leave his mother’s side after a deadly encounter with humans. Local rangers worked carefully to earn back his trust.
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Silhouetted electrical transmission towers and power lines against a blue sky at dusk or dawn.
Tech & Innovation

New data centers in Oregon will be charged for all costs associated with growing energy need

The state’s monopoly electric utilities must create a separate rate class for data centers to ensure other customers aren’t subsidizing the massive energy demand.
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A hot spring with brilliant blue, orange, and pink mineral-colored water steams in the foreground, with dark branching thermal veins visible across the tan and orange mineral deposits. Coniferous forest covers mountains in the background under clear blue sky.
Environment

Yellowstone rangers find and donate hundreds of discarded baseball caps from the park's hot springs

From claw clips to camera lens caps, the thousands of trash items reveal a lot about national park visitors.
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A man in a green shirt and white hat holds food while a young elephant's trunk touches his face and head.
Animals

At 4 weeks old, this baby elephant was found hiding amongst a farmer's cattle. The discovery turned into a lifesaving mission

Kipekee had been forced to look for help after her mother was caught in the crosshairs of a local conflict.
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Two men in a wooden boat smile while petting a young elephant in shallow water.
Animals

Fishermen stop to save baby elephant from rising floodwaters after it was swept 3 miles from its mother

On September 21, local fishermen found a baby elephant struggling to keep its head above water in West Bengal’s Teesta River.
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Gray single-story house with dark roof and multiple windows surrounded by evergreen trees and young planted conifers in a forest setting.
Housing

Gen-Zer quits corporate job and moves to Yellowstone, where she pays $96 a month in rent

Zoe De La Paz packed up her life in Chicago and became a seamstress at one of the most beautiful parks in the country.
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A gray and tan canine with pointed ears holds a small rodent in its mouth while standing on snow against a dark background.
Animals

Scientists are crowd-sourcing photos of wildlife eating lunch. It helps them protect endangered species

With a new platform called Who Eats Whom, citizen scientists reveal the fascinating, sometimes shocking interactions between species.
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A sea turtle swims near the surface of clear turquoise water, wearing a floatation harness on its shell. The image is taken from above, showing the turtle's flippers extended as it moves through the water.
Animals

Rescuers made a sea turtle a custom 3D-printed harness after it was struck by a boat and could no longer swim

Cebu’s care has also included acupuncture, physical therapy, and stem cell treatments.
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Woman wearing glasses and a dark shirt holds yellow and green boxes labeled "Emergency Naloxone" at a table with harm reduction materials and educational pamphlets visible.
Health

Save a Life Day is September 24. Organizers are forging ahead despite the Trump administration's new limits on resources

The annual event distributes free naloxone and provides overdose-reversal education.
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